Wednesday, May 25, 2016

As I just purchased an NVidia GeForce GTX 970, I installed the FFmpeg "nvenc" codec to see if I would gain any benefits from the hardware encoding acceleration on the card. From the results, I think I did!

H264 encode
In the picture below, you can see that the H264 maxes out my CPU at 92% while I transcode a 2.7K GoPro video. Also, final FPS of the encode is 23:

Now here is the encode using the Maxwell class CPU on the GTX 970. CPU utilization is down to 15% and my FPS goes from 20 to 38! Impressive!

Encoding Parameters
The params are be a bit different between the two, but I think they might be good enough for a comparison.

Why Mule?

"Mules are not really stubborn. They can seem lazy because they will not put themselves in danger. A horse can be worked until it drops, but not so with a mule. The "stubborn" streak is just the mule's way of telling humans that things are not right. Mules are very intelligent and it is not a good idea to abuse a mule. They will do their best for their owner, with the utmost patience."About Mules